US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on Jan. 27 for "Probing film that absorbs and reacts with gases, with light of different wavelengths, humidity detection, and optionally temperature detection" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,427, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Probing film that absorbs and reacts with gases, with light of different wavelengths, humidity detection, and optionally temperature detection" was invented by Peter Tobias (Minneapolis) and Christopher Zins (Coon Rapids, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and systems for distinguishing a target gas from other target gases, which involve a configuration of a light source (120) and paper tape (110) such that light (112) emitted from the light source (120) can reflect off the paper tape (110). A reflected portion (114...